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Blocked and Reported
Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.
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Episodes
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 34: The 1619 Project, Hunter Biden's Sweet Gig, And Facebook And Twitter's Panicky Incompetence
Katie and Jesse discuss the recent and not-so-recent controversy over The 1619 project, the reputational perils of getting in constant fights with idiots on…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 33: Is Banning QAnon From Facebook Good And Is Katie Hill Bad?
[Update, 12:10 a.m.: For some reason the version I initially uploaded cut off before the actual ending. Apologies, but everything is fixed now. -J] The hosts…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 32: Himpathy For The Bitcoiner
After a brief and sober discussion about President Trump's coronavirus diagnosis, the hosts devote most of the episode to two stories: a controversy…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 31: Mitch McConnell, J.K. Rowling, Incels, And Other Search-Engine Optimization Gold
After Katie tells the story of her 12-hour banishment from Twitter for a biting piece of political commentary, the hosts discus "TFW No GF," a controversial…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 30: Pedo-File This One Under 'Outrage'
Katie and Jesse discuss the online outrage surrounding the French film 'Cuties,' which has slightly more underage twerking than most 2020 cinematic releases…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 29: Donald Trump Hates Critical Race Theory And Vice News Loves Racism And Satanism
The hosts discuss Donald Trump's sudden fixation on ostensibly "un-American" critical race theory in government diversity trainings. What does a good-faith…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 28: Dolezal II: Even Dolezaller
After Jesse reveals yet another shocking secret about his mysterious life, the hosts discuss the case of Jessica Krug, a George Washington University professor…
Blocked and ReportedPatrons Only: Jesse Interviews Philosopher Justin Tosi On Moral Grandstanding, The Social-Justice Culture Wars In Philosophy, And More
In today's patrons-only episode, Jesse interviews Justin Tosi, a philosopher at Texas Tech University and the author, with Brandon Warmke, of the new book…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 27: Our Summer Of Hell Continues In Kenosha
After an intro in which Jesse impresses Katie deeply with a brilliant, cutting-edge character he has clearly put a lot of time into developing, the hosts…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 26: A Grand Unspurling Of Years Of Cliff Mass Hysteria
In this week's episode, Jesse addresses an ugly rumor about him posted to Blocked and Reported's Apple Podcast review page. Then the hosts discuss Conor…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 25: Introducing Mount Holey Oak (With Dan Savage)
In this week's threesome of an episode, which was recorded with enthusiastic consent by everyone involved, Katie and Jesse talk to Dan Savage about the strange…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 24: The Sad Tale Of @Sciencing_Bi, America's Realest Bisexual Indigenous Anthropologist
In one of the weirdest online controversies yet covered by Blocked and Reported, Katie walks Jesse through the wild, twisting tale of @Sciencing_Bi, a young…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 23: Welcome To Portland, Where [Indistinct But Horrific Coughs And Screams]
Things are not going so great in Portland, where months of rowdy and sometimes destructive protests have been met with a federal response that has…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 22: Freddie DeBoer On "The Cult Of Smart"
After Katie recounts a listener complaint and the cohosts announce a new focus for the podcast, the bulk of the episode consists of an interview Jesse…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 21: Bye, Bye Bari And Adios, Andrew
After Jesse reluctantly reveals some incredibly embarrassing and personal details about his love life in the opening segment, the hosts discuss the week's two…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 20: Online Harassment Is Bad But Also People Are Extremely Disingenuous About It, And Other Observations
After Jesse bravely expresses an opinion that is likely to get him cancelled by Cancel Culture, and to potentially destroy the podcast entirely, the hosts, who…
Blocked and ReportedPatrons Only: Dread Letter Day
Katie and Jesse signed a letter that was published in Harper's! It's pretty basic but given Twitter's reaction you would have thought it was an excerpt from…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 19: The Pod Gets Into Its First Beef, Shitty Media Men List Developments, And Stop Lying About Your Online Enemies
The gang celebrates July 4th by barely mentioning it. Instead, Jesse and Katie talk about Blocked and Reported's arguably FIRST EVER beef, which involves a…
Blocked and ReportedBonus Interview: Yascha Mounk On The Importance Of Defending Liberalism, Unjust Firings, And More
Jesse interviews Yascha Mounk about the threats liberalism is facing from both the left and the right, and Yascha introduces a new platform he is launching to…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 18: A Reckoning Is Afoot, A Rattled Rationalist, A False Karening, And A Troubled Liberal Enclave
A reckoning is afoot, as Jesse finally confronts Katie over her abusive managerial style. After the hosts get that out of the way, they proceed into a…
Blocked and ReportedBONUS: Here's Our Interview With Jeremiah Johnson Of The Neoliberal Project
If you develop severe physical symptoms whenever you go more than a day without hearing fresh content that includes Katie's and Jesse's voices, you're in luck…
Blocked and ReportedBonus Interview: "What a stupid f*cking way to have a really important conversation": Reflections On A Yearlong White Fragility Training
If hearing Jesse and Katie dig around in the strange innards of "White Fragility" wasn't enough Robin DiAngelo for you, have we got the thing: an interview…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 17: "White Fragility" Is A Completely Bizarre And Pernicious Book And It's A Terrible Sign That So Many Americans Love It
(UPDATE, 6/21/2020: Replaced the original file with one that has a new intro from Katie about some violence that took place in the CHAZ. This is the version…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 16: The Cancellations Will Continue Until Antiracism Improves
The roiling tremors on the left continue, as a young progressive data analyst gets fired for... it's honestly too ridiculous to even type, and the Poetry…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 14: Bari Weiss Is Right
Bari Weiss did some tweets about how there is a generational divide at The New York Times that is, in her view, hampering the paper's ability to publish…
Blocked and ReportedBonus: Jesse Interviews Ben Burgis, Author Of "Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left"
For this, the first-ever patrons-only Blocked and Reported interview, Jesse interviewed Ben Burgis, a philosopher, prolific writer for Jacobin and other…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 13: The Best Podcast Of All New York Times
In today's episode, the hosts zero in on an obscure, under-covered newspaper known as "The New York Times." Specifically, they discuss an explosion of employee…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 12: Protests And Riots Everywhere, Media Insane, Things Bad, And So On And So Forth
There's so much going on that Katie and Jesse are back again, already. In this episode they discuss the protests and riots popping off all over the country in…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 11: CPK (Central Park Karen), Racist Policing, And The Endless Battle Over Online Shaming
In this week's episode, Katie and Jesse discuss the Amy Cooper/Christian Cooper incident in Central Park. Is this different from other instances of online…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 10: "Ronan Farrow, Jia Tolentino, And An International Network Of Powerful Lesbians"
Before jumping into a truly brutal week for media news involving journalists who are younger and more attractive and successful than they are, Jesse and Katie…
Blocked and ReportedPatrons Only: Go Team War Eagle, Fight, Fight, Fight!
In their first-ever edition of "🥱 or 🔥," a game in which one cohost tries to convince the other that a given internet controversy is interesting, Jesse regales…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 9: Layoffs And Teigen And Roman And Kondo And Feel-Bad Liberalism
Here's Blocked and Reported, Episode 9: Layoffs And Teigen And Roman And Kondo And Feel-Bad Liberalism. Our week-to-week schedule varies a great deal…
Blocked and ReportedPatrons Only: When Your Training's Shut Down / And It Causes A Frown / That's Damore
In our first-ever Patrons-only episode, we break down an NBC News Article about the latest diversity brouhaha at Google, which leads into a broader discussion…
Blocked and ReportedWe Were (Joe) Biden Our Time But We (Candace) Owens You An Episode About Tara Reade
After Jesse gets things off to a fantastic start with an uplifting story about dog feces, the hosts finally relent and discuss the Joe Biden/Tara Reade…
Blocked and ReportedBONUS EPISODE: Chrissy Teigen Vs Alison Roman Vs The White Women Of Twitter
During an emergency session of Blocked and Reported, Katie and Jesse discuss the controversy sparked by Alison Roman's decision to go hard at Chrissy Teigen…
Blocked and ReportedIs Bill de Blasio An Anti-Semite? Are Boomers OK? Are Orcs Racist? Is Bill de Blasio An Orc? Are Orcs Boomers?
The show gets off to what feels like its 100th consecutive turbulent start, with Katie seeking solace over a super-personal medical issue. Then the hosts…
Blocked and ReportedAre You Woke Enough To Pay For A Sex Worker? Also: What's The Matter With Meghan Daum? (Featuring Meghan Daum)
After the pod gets off to yet another rough start thanks to a vicious anti-bread tirade Katie levels at Jesse, the cohosts heat up some leftovers from the last…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 5: Katie And Jesse Decide Who Is Valid
In a shocking moment that definitely wasn't scripted, Katie almost singlehandedly immolates the podcast by dropping a horrific slur just seconds into the…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 4: Real Time With The Louis C. Rogan Experience
Jesse tries to gaslight Katie into believing she's Jewish. After he succeeds, the cohosts move on to the meat of the show: a discussion of three Problematic…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 3: Nice White Ladies Pay To Get Called Racist Over Dinner
Jesse has a bad cough. Is it coronavirus, or just Jewishness? Katie, meanwhile, isn't quite sure what plant she turned into tea last week. Will either cohost…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 2: "You Essentially Stole My Podcast"
Less than a week post-launch, Blocked and Reported faces a profoundly serious threat to its existence: an accusation of Grand Theft Audio from one of the hosts…
Blocked and ReportedEpisode 1: The Pilot
IT'S HERE. In the pilot episode of Blocked and Reported, hosts Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal explain what the podcast is, and Katie reveals a very special…